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...second line of Lamarche, Tread-well and Smith have shown a surprisingly powerful scoring punch, putting in 11 goals in three games. Smith accounted for both goals in the clutch victory over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet to Face Improved Huskies | 12/12/1962 | See Source »

...diaphanous curtains of Spanish moss, of copperhead and rattlesnake, bear, deer and mink, and of quicksand. The swamp once covered 1,500 sq. mi. But modern civilization's bulldozers have cut it down to some 600 sq. mi. Now even to the Great Dismal Swamp comes the forward tread of split-levelism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virginia: Swamps & Split Levels | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...after the Bay of Pigs disaster, Castro offered to trade the prisoners for 500 tractors. At the behind-the-scenes urging of the President, a group of prominent U.S. citizens formed a committee to raise money to buy tractors for Castro. The deal collapsed when Castro demanded heavy, tank-tread tractors costing several times as much as the wheeled farm tractors the committee had planned to deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Millions for Tribute? | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...Newport Shipyard undergoing final polishing, then was set in the water for minor ballast shifts. At week's end her crew arrived to pace out the dwindling days before the meeting with the Australian challenger Gretel. By contrast, the Australian 12-meter lay inert under the hurried tread of a dozen shipfitters who had come aboard for final, perhaps desperate, changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two to Make Ready | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...unconcerned as an old plow horse," said his groom. "He's shy and aloof, and at times he can be a bit uppity, but he can afford to be, now that he is a star." He certainly got star treatment; so that he would not have to tread unfamiliar soil, his trainer imported a truckload of clay for his stall from Goshen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Star over Da Quoin | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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